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Thursday, 10 January 2013

Booking Through Thursday and Top Ten Thursday

Booking Through Thursday is hosted over at BTT and this week's qst is:

It’s my Dad’s birthday today, which makes me wonder … do you like to give books as gifts?

Well, first of all, congratulations are in order! Happy Birthday to Deb's dad!! I do like giving books but usually not as a birthday present. For birthdays I always try to find something fun, not that books aren't fun, but they're very subjective. I could absolutely love a book that everyone else hates. I always try to get my sister to read the books I used to love when I was her age and I find myself slightly disappointed she's just devoured the Twilight saga and The Hunger Games trilogy but passes on Harry Potter or any of the other great books I've still got. She is reading 'The Hobbit' now though, so there is hope. But when I give a book to someone I do it because I know they'll like it or find it interesting, whereas birthday presents are just supposed to be fun. I mean, I just bought someone a massive nerf-gun for their birthday! I feel I might regret that when I become the target!Top Ten Thursday is hosted by Alice im Bücherland and this week we're making a list of:

Chinese or Japanese themes books

I haven't read that many books set in China or Japan, but those few I have read I've really enjoyed.

I don't really have anyone that reads like I do, but if I did, I would get gift cards and let them choose their own books. As you said, it's very subjective what people like. I love getting book gift cards...that's my favorite thing to receive. Thanks for following my blog...I'm a new follower of yours. Love your blog.

About Me

Books have always been and will always be my passion. I grew to love books at a very early age, when my father sang me the alphabet as a lullaby. He read to me every single night for over 10 years, aftter which I took over.

Marina Tsvetaeva

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on livin too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

J.R.R. Tolkien

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life . Can you give it to them?

Then do no be too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see al ends.

-The Lord of the Rings, Book four, Chapter one-

Oscar Wilde

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Andrew Ross

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television

Jim Fiebig

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.